Brick Oven Rocket Stove Tandoor

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Hitchhiker

Posts : 246Join date : 2013-12-26Location : nomad

Subject: Brick Oven Rocket Stove Tandoor Fri Feb 28, 2014 6:56 am

This is kind of silly but the tandoor shows you the heat retention possibilities of ordinary brick/clay. I basically made a brick box and smoked some ribs over coals. I am actually thinking of doing this again sometime and sealing the box with some sort of cheap homemade mortar. The box also needs to be bigger than this first attempt.

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Hitchhiker

Posts : 246Join date : 2013-12-26Location : nomad

Subject: Re: Brick Oven Rocket Stove Tandoor Fri Feb 28, 2014 7:02 am

I called it a rocket stove because I noticed how the bricks from the risers were retaining the heat. I wondered why no one had ever thought of using the riser as an oven.

Josjor

Posts : 33Join date : 2014-01-02

Subject: Re: Brick Oven Rocket Stove Tandoor Fri Feb 28, 2014 8:01 am

Not to be harsh or anything, but 11 seconds of a stack of bricks doesn't really tell us what you're doing or trying to share. Got some more?

Hitchhiker

Posts : 246Join date : 2013-12-26Location : nomad

Subject: Re: Brick Oven Rocket Stove Tandoor Fri Feb 28, 2014 8:11 am

No, that is cool. I said it was rather silly. It is a brick box with hot coals (heated beforehand in the box), wood chips, and a tin of water on the bottom. Halfway up is a metal grid holding pork loin ribs. I smoked the ribs for about 6 hours at a constant temperature of around 200. I based this box on the Tandoor, a clay pot used for cooking. I had been grilling with the basic brick rocket stove and noticed how hot the interior bricks stayed over time. I figured why not try to cook inside the riser like a tandoor.

This is a basic example of the heat retention of clay. There has been some discussion of clay bricks, fire bricks, and mass in general on a couple of threads. I wanted to show how clay stores heat. Like I said, pretty stupid but if the world came to an end, then I would always have a way to smoke some food.

Josjor

Posts : 33Join date : 2014-01-02

Subject: Re: Brick Oven Rocket Stove Tandoor Fri Feb 28, 2014 8:16 am

Not stupid at all. I'd like to see how you've got things arranged inside there.

Ever cook a hog in a pit? Sort of the same principal, but you dig a pit, put the charcoal down on the floor, put the whole hog on a rack in the pit, and cover the whole thing up for about 12 hours. Delish! I've done the same thing above ground using cinder blocks.